Laundry drier



J. J. TAYLOR Sept. 22, 1925.

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PATENT OFFICE.

' JAMES J. 'rAYLon or wyomno, OHIO.

LAUNDRY DRIER.

Application filed April 2'7, 1925. Serial No. 25,983.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it" known that I, JAMES J. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Wyoming, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio,'have invented a new and useful Improvement in Laundry Driers, of which the following specification is a full disclosure.

My invention relates to a laundry drier and the object of the improvement is to simplify the device to a structural minimum and at the same time to increase the heating and drying efliciency by a particular manipulation of the products of combustion in relation to the dryin compartment and the conduits for intro ucing-the air currents into the drying compartment,

The features of the invention are more fully set forth in the description of the drawings forming a part of this application, in which:

Fi re 1 is a front view of my improved laun ry drier with certain parts broken away to show the inner construction.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary end view show ing the opening through which the heating chamber or unit is inserted into the base of the drier.

Figure 3 is a plan sectional view taken on 1ine33, Fig. 1, showing the corner construction and the screen.

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken on line 4-4:, Fig. 1.

Figure 5 is a sectional view taken longitudinally of the heating chamber at the burner end thereof.

Figure 6 is a plan sectional view taken on line 6-6, Fig. 5, showing the arrangement of the inlet tubes and the partitions for directing the heated air around the tubes.

Figure 7 is a sectional view taken on line 7-7, Fig. 6,

Figure 8 is a fragmentary end view, taken the same as Fig. 2, showing the heating a 0 v i The invention hereln disclosed ma conveniently embodied in the conventional design of laundry drier as regards material and general structure, which, as disclosed in the drawing for illustration, comprises a sheet metal box or cabinet 1 constituting the drying compartment provided with the usual hanger. racks 2, the air outlet 3 at the upper ,end of the compartment and communicating preferably with the flue pipe 4 which leads upwardly from the combustion detailing the tube construction.

chamber at the bottom of the compartment. The usual doors 5 are provided and the usual horizontal screen 6 is placed at the base of the drier compartment, for preventmg any clothes touching the. heater unit if accidentally dropped from the racks.

The heater chamber 7 is immediately below the drying chamber and corresponds therewith in area. This chamber is constituted by the walls of the structure, the upper horizontal plate or sheet 8 and the base plate or sheet 9 positioned slightly above the floor, theentire .device being supported w1th1n the frame of the drier so that there is an air space extending completely under the heating chamber.

This heater chamber 7 may be regarded as comprising the burner chamber 11 and the communicating air heating or heater chamber 12 which lies intermediate the burnerchamber and the flue pipe 4:. The burner chamber is separated slightly at its her by means of the low vertical partition 18 allowing the products of combustion to flow upwardly and over this partition. and

.lower portion from the air-heating chaminto the first quasi-compartment of the air- I heating chamber. This air-heating chamber'is for the purpose of utilizing the products of combustion for heating the air which is to be admitted into the drier, and this function is provided through the placing, in the airheating chamber of a series of vertical air tubes l t -which extend through the top and bottom plates 8, 9, so as to pass air from the room through the heater chamber and into the lower portion of the drying compartment.

- These vertical air tubes are preferably arranged in parallel horizontal rows, separated by a series tively to the opposite end or'side walls of the structure, thus providing alternately of partitions 15 which are alternately secured at opposite ends respec:

.tion move through the left-hand passage and then flow to the extreme right and out the passage, at the other end into the next subdivision and so on, which of course provides for the escaping products of combustion along this pathof travel, possible within the limitations of the air-heating chamber and from which it results that the greatest maximum heating efficiency of the products'of combustion is imparted to the walls I of the air tube.

From practical experience I have found that the heating of the tubes is facilitated by providing in addition to the alternate transverse passages or zigzag general direction of travel of the products of combustion, additional air passages in the nature of orifices 17 placed at appropriate in tervals in these partitions, as shown in Figs. 7 and 6, which permits of minor 'or intersecting currents of air passing around and in contact with the air tubes.

While it is not essential to the principles of this invention, I have found that in a" structural sense and in an assembly sense, it is desirable to constitute the unitary burner and air-heating chamber in the nature of a removable drawer, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. -This may be done by forming the flanges 18 at the bottom of the casings forming a rest for the heating chamber drawer and in which event the inside end of this drawer adjacent the flue pipe would be formed with a flanged annulus 19 for fitting air tubes in relation to the top and bottom plates or sheets which construction, illustrated in Fig. 7 is very desirable in such cases as where I employ the other preferred though optional embodiment, namely, of making the burner and air-heating chamber a unit in the nature of a removable drawerfitting into the general drier casing. To effect this rigidity, I preferably provide the registeringorifices in the top 'and'bottom plates respectively and so form these orifices that I strike annular flanges 26, 27 upwardy and downwardly from the plane of the top and bottom'plates respectively so that they project beyond the plates, forming securance collars or annuli for the vertical a11- tubes.

Accordingly, the upper and lower ends of these vertical tubes extend beyond the extremities of these annuli 26, 27, and are preferably bent over to form the cupping annular flanges 28 inter-engagin or interlocking with the annuli 26, 27. mmediate- 1y adjacent the top and bottom plates, respectively, I preferably provide the annular tubes with the bead extensions 29 which reinforce these plates transversely, thereby adding to the rigidity, and the whole structure is extremely compact and stiffened, inasmuch as the tubes are thus secured to the top and bottom plates between the beads 29'and the annular cups 28.

While I have shown the several preferred embodiments as illustrative of the best method of carrying out the invention, it is obvious that these may be modified or omitted without departing from the scope of the disclosure except in so far as such preferred constructions are made the subject matter of the specific claims.

Having described my invention, I claim: 1. In a laundry drier, a casing comprising a combustion compartment in the base and a super-posed clothes drying compartment, parallel horizontal plates in said casing constituting the top and bottom members of the combustion chamber, a .burner at one end of said chamber, a flue pipe at the other end, a series of air conduits intersecting a portion of said chamber intermediate the burner .and flue pipe admitting fresh air into the drying compartment, partitions in the combustion chamber defining a devious escape passageway for the products of combustion in relation to the conduits, and a vent from the drier compartment communicating with the flue pipe.

2. In a laundry dri er, a casing comprising aicombustion chamber in the base and a superposed clothes drier compartment, parallel horizontal plates in said casing constituting the top and bottom membersof the combustion chamber and formed with vertically aligned apertures, aburner at one end of said combustion chamber, a flue pipe at the other end, a series of air conduits in .the combustion chambercommunicating with said top and bottom apertures to form fresh air inlets into the drier compartment, said conduits being arranged/in parallel rows, partitions in said combustion chamber formingfa zigzag passageway among the conduits leading the products of combustion into the flue pipe, and a vent in the driercompartment communicating with the flue pipe.

3. In a laundry drier, a casing comprising a combustion chamber in the base and a super-posed clothes drier compartment, parallel horizontal plates in said casing constituting the top and bottom members of the combustion chamber and formed with vertically aligned apertures, a burner at cating with the flue pipe.

' 4. In a laundry drier, a casing comprising a drawer compartment at-the base and a super-posed clothes drier compartment, a unitary drawer structure fitting into said base compartment and removable therefrom,

a burner in said drawer compartment, a flue pipe, a member 1n sa1d drawer communicating with the flue plpe, and a series of air condults in said drawer between the burner and the flue pipe for admitting fresh air through the drawer into the drier compartment and disposed in the path of travel of the products of combustion to the flue pipe.

5. In a laundry drier, a casing comprising a drawer compartment at the base and a super-posed clothes drier compartment,

-a unitary drawer structure fitting into said base compartment and removable therefrom, a burner in said drawer compartment, a flue pipe, a member in said drawer communicating with the flue pipe, a series of air conduits in said drawer between the burner and the flue pipe for admitting fresh air through the drawer into the drier compartment and disposed in the path of travel of the products of combustion to the flue pipe, and partitions in said drawer defining a devious passageway for the escape of products of combustion in relation to the conduits.

6. In a laundry drier, a casing comprising a drawer-like compartment at the base and a super-posed drier compartment, a flue pipe, a removable drawer fitting in said compartment, a member in sa1d drawer communicating with the flue pipe, a burner. in the other end of said drawer, air conduits in the top and bottom members constituting said drawer, said top and bottom members havin interlocking surfaces rigidly securing t e conduits unitarily to the drawer,

' sa1d conduits admitting air through the drawer into the drier compartment, and a,

vent in the drier compartment communicating with the flue pipe.

7. In a laundry drier, a casing comprising a drawer compartment at the base and a super-posed drier compartment, a drawer fitting in said drier compartment and comprising top and bottom members having aligned apertures, a burner in one end of the drawer, a, flue pipe extending vertically to the base of the casing, a member in the other end of the drawer communicating with said flue pipe and constituting an end member of the drawer, and a series of conduitsin said drawer between the burner and flue pipe member rigidly secured at top and llgottom to the top and bottom drawer memers.

8. In a laundry drier, a casing comprising a drawer compartment at the base and a super-posed drier compartment, a drawer fitting in said drier compartment and comprising top and bottom members having aligned apertures, a burner in one end of the drawer, a flue pipe extending vertically to the base of the casing, a member in the other end of the drawer communicatin with said flue pipe and constituting an end memberof the drawer, a series of conduits in said drawer between the burner and flue pipe member rigidly secured at top and bottom to the top and bottom'drawer members, and partitions in said drawer between the burner and flue pipe member providing a devious passageway for the "product of combustion from the burner to the flue pipe for heating said conduits.-

9. In combination with a drier compartment, its support with a flue pipe, a removable drawer constituting a unitary combustion chamber under the drier, comprising a burner therein, a coupling member detachably engaging the-flue pipe, and a series of air conduits between the burner and coupling member intercepting the products of combustion and transmitting air through the bottom of the drawer into the drier.

10. In combination with a drier compartment, its support with a flue pipe, a removable drawer constituting a unitary combustion chamber undenthe" drier, comprising a burner therein, a coupling member detachably engaging the flue pipe, a series of air conduits betwen the I burner and coupling member intercepting the products of combustion and transmitting air through the bottom of the drawer into the drier, and baflles unita'rily secured within the drawer in spaced relation to the air conduits.

11. In combination with a drier compartbox under the drier comprising top and bottom plates and supporting walls, a burner therein, a wall coupling member detachably engaging the flue pipe, a series of air con- 5 duits between the burner and flue, rigidly connected to the top and bottomsmembersof the drawer and positioned to intercept the products of combustion, being formed to transmit air through the bottom of the drawer into the drier, and a series of bafiies supportedby the walls within the drawer positioned in spaced relation to the air conduits.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name. 1

Y JAMES TAYLOR 

